{"id":68286,"date":"2013-03-19T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=68286"},"modified":"2013-05-14T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:24:00","slug":"skivrecension-phosphorescent-muchacho-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=68286","title":{"rendered":"Skivrecension: Phosphorescent &#8211; Muchacho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/muchabo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68263\" alt=\"muchabo\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/muchabo-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/muchabo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/muchabo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/muchabo.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Phosphorescent<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Titel: Muchacho<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Betyg: 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phosphorescent \u00e4r l\u00e5tskrivaren Matthew Houcks alias och <em>Muchacho<\/em> \u00e4r hans sj\u00e4tte album sedan debuten 2003. Hemkommen till Brooklyn efter turn\u00e9n som f\u00f6ljde senaste albumet <em>Here&#8217;s to Taking It Easy<\/em>\u00a0var han b\u00e5de mentalt och fysiskt utmattad, han visste inte ens om han skulle orka g\u00f6ra ett nytt album, men efter att ha flytt till den lilla mexikanska orten Tulum b\u00f6rjade\u00a0<em>Muchacho<\/em> sakteligen formas i hans huvud.<\/p>\n<p>Tillsammans med producenten John Agnello, som tidigare arbetat med bland annat Kurt Vile, har han lyckats skapa en inbjudande, varm, frodig och bitvis dr\u00f6msk ljudbild. Instrumentationen \u00e4r rikare och &#8211; \u00e4ven om det fortfarande finns inslag av steel pedal &#8211; mer ambient \u00e4n den countryrock vi vant oss med p\u00e5 hans senaste skivor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6ppningssp\u00e5ret <em>Sun, Arise!<\/em> \u00e4r en dr\u00f6msk hymn med elektroniska element samt lika vacker som indiefolk-sk\u00e4ggig k\u00f6rs\u00e5ng medan efterf\u00f6ljande <em>Song for Zula<\/em>, singeln som f\u00f6regick albumsl\u00e4ppet, visar att Phosphorescent f\u00f6r tillf\u00e4llet \u00e4r i toppen av sin formkurva. Det \u00e4r en av \u00e5rets hittills i s\u00e4rklass starkaste l\u00e5tar.<\/p>\n<p>Albumet, som \u00e4r emotionellt laddat, kretsar kring en k\u00e4nsla av vemod, inte minst skvallrar l\u00e5gm\u00e4lda pianosp\u00e5ret\u00a0<em>A New Anhedonia<\/em>\u00a0om alltf\u00f6r m\u00e5nga ensamma n\u00e4tter p\u00e5 barer. Dessf\u00f6rinnan har han i\u00a0<em>Mucacho Tune<\/em>\u00a0sjungit den bek\u00e4nnande textraden &#8221;I&#8217;ve been fucked up \/ I&#8217;ve been a fool&#8221;. Om n\u00e5got s\u00e5 \u00e4r det ett vackert verk om sj\u00e4lvrannsakan och det \u00e4r knappast n\u00e5gon slump att skivan b\u00e5de b\u00f6rjar och slutar med soluppg\u00e5ngar, f\u00f6r mitt bland allt m\u00f6rker finns det \u00e4ven glimtar av hopp.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4sta sp\u00e5r: Song for Zula<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FcdOLKx2XG8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Phosphorescent Titel: Muchacho Betyg: 5 Phosphorescent \u00e4r l\u00e5tskrivaren Matthew Houcks alias och Muchacho \u00e4r hans sj\u00e4tte album sedan debuten 2003. Hemkommen till Brooklyn efter turn\u00e9n som f\u00f6ljde senaste albumet Here&#8217;s to Taking It Easy\u00a0var han b\u00e5de mentalt och fysiskt utmattad, han visste inte ens om han skulle orka g\u00f6ra ett nytt album, men efter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[9724,9721,9723],"class_list":["post-68286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-musik","category-skivor","tag-muchacho","tag-phosphorescent","tag-song-for-zula","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68286"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68291,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68286\/revisions\/68291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}